Hi Ryan, On Jul 12 13:53, Ryan Johnson wrote: > Hi all, > > Please CC me in replies, I'm no longer a list member. Given the massive amount of mail on this list I can see your point... ;) > I recently tried to use in a C++ program and got linker > errors. Turns out the header is neither C++-aware (extern "C") nor > cygwin-aware (_EXFUN). It doesn't have to be. Including is not meant to be done in application code. The POSIX header is , not : http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/dirent.h.html If you include , your linker problems should go away. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat